Four migrants were rescued on Tuesday off the French coast as they were trying to reach England with the aid of oars and paddles. A little earlier, 29 other migrants were picked up by the authorities after their boat broke up on the breakwater near Dunkirk.
Fedasil, the federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers in Belgium, announced on April 24 that it would investigate the Jalhay center for asylum seekers, near Liège. There have been reports of dilapidated premises, threats, and neglect of health care.
The strict COVID-19 lockdown measures imposed in France in March last year hit migrant minors awaiting recognition of their status ten times as hard as the normal population, says a new report from several NGOS, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Franck and his wife, originally from the DRC, were granted refugee status in Greece on March 1. Yet, due to a lack of work and integration, the family is still stuck in the camp on the Greek island of Samos, with no prospects for the future. "We feel we have been abandoned to our sad fate," says Franck.
Last week, the British Home Secretary presented a reform of the asylum system to the House of Commons that would no longer grant the same rights to people who have entered the country irregularly instead of legally. NGOs denounced the measure as "cruel and inhumane".
480 homeless migrants, including women and children, were given shelter on Thursday evening after they occupied Place de la République in the heart of Paris for several hours.
Frightened of being sent back to their country of origin, migrants are leaving their accommodation centers in Gran Canaria to sleep on the streets of the Spanish island. Sometimes they find refuge high up on the edge of the cliffs.
Seventy migrants who were reportedly beaten and tortured in six secret prisons in the Libyan city of Bani Walid have been released. The city is considered a hub of human trafficking in Libya.
Some migrants held in administrative detention centers (CRA) in France have been sent to prison for refusing to take PCR tests. Lawyers have called the practice "illegal" and denounced it as a violation of "fundamental rights".
102 migrants, including two pregnant women and a seven-month-old baby, were disembarked from the Aita Mari rescue ship at the Sicilian port of Augusta on Monday. They had all been rescued on Friday in the Mediterranean Sea.
Adama* contacted InfoMigrants to talk about what he experienced on arrival in Romania. Beaten and humiliated by Romanian police after crossing the border from Serbia, the 36-year-old Malian is still traumatized by the violence he suffered.
Ever since Laye Traoré, a young apprentice baker from Guinea, was saved from deportation after his boss staged a hunger strike, the demands to help other young migrant workers stay in France have multiplied. Laye has become a symbol for the struggles many unaccompanied minors in France face after turning 18.